Re: [PATCH 10/30] alpha: Clean-up the panic notifier code

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On 10/05/2022 11:16, Petr Mladek wrote:
> [...]
> Yeah, it is pretty strange behavior.
> 
> I looked into the history. This notifier was added into the alpha code
> in 2.4.0-test2pre2. In this historic code, the default panic() code
> either rebooted after a timeout or ended in a infinite loop. There
> was not crasdump at that times.
> 
> The notifier allowed to change the behavior. There were 3 notifiers:
> 
>    + mips and mips64 ended with blinking in panic()
>    + alpha did __halt() in this srm case
> 
> They both still do this. I guess that it is some historic behavior
> that people using these architectures are used to.
> 
> Anyway, it makes sense to do this as the last notifier after
> dumping other information.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Best Regards,
> Petr

Thanks a bunch for the review - added your tag for V2 =)



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